I was chatting to someone the other day who said that skimmed milk is a bit of a con as, although it is lower in fat than semi-skimmed milk, they ramp up the sugar content to make it taste better.
I was checking a few labels earlier and seems they are right about the figures though which, if either, is actually better for you?
I buy semi-skimmed now but when I was a child and the milk was delivered in bottles to the door, I used to get told off by my Mum for pinching the cream off the top of the milk. Ahh, happy days.
Skimmed is pointless - why bother with "milk" at all - just like water. 1% is just about OK, semi-skimmed the best all-rounder. Full-fat OK in coffee but greasy any other way.
when you say they ramp up the sugar content, is it just that taking the fat out increases the proportion of naturally occurring sugars, perhaps? the only reason for skimmed milk, in my humble opinion, is if you are on a fat free diet. The fat in the milk helps to absorb the calcium.....and we all need some fat.
semi-skimmed, I remember as a child (when we had milk delivered) we always had a couple of regular milks (probibly full fat) and one gold top! which always had about an inch of cream on top! real incentive to get up first, washed and dressed so you could have the creamy top on your breakfast